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Edit strip with compositor

Hi!

I want to create a addon which makes it easier to edit stripes from the sequencer with the compositor.

This is what I want to do:
Add a button in the Sequencer "Edit strip(s) in Compositor", when pressed call the operator.
For each selected strip
if strip is a movie clip
Create new scene with same name as strip
Edit the scene endFrame to match strip length
Create a composite with the moviestrip file as input
Go back to original scene and add/position the newly created scene ontop of the moviestrip.

Script without GUI (select a moviestrip in the sequencer and run script)

There maybe some cross over between the two ideas, and Strip-to nodes-to strip is an workflow I have wanted to see for ages. Perhaps you could even bundle the original strip and it's node child strip, together in a Meta strip. So it doesn't loose sync. Although that would make de-activating Nodes (for speed) difficult.

Good luck and I hope this script (if it works out ok) is accepted into trunk distribution, as so many languish as the API matures Like Carlos's Jump-to-cut script. It is great but won't function unless maintained.

Cheers, David ___________"awesome in space and other places".
________Follow me on twitter @3pointedit
_____________ Check the Youtube Channel for tutorials. Or my Sketchbook

peddie go to freenode.irc channel #blendercoders , use webfreenode irc or other type of clients. On that channel you can ask same question here about your script and someone of the developers can help you.

peddie go to freenode.irc channel #blendercoders , use webfreenode irc or other type of clients. On that channel you can ask same question here about your script and someone of the developers can help you.

Thanks Numarul7, although isn't this the correct forum for python support? I logged in to #blendercoders but I got no response from anyone (maybe it's the time difference).

To access the movie clip (from VSE) I don't think it appears as an asset to Nodes. When I add clips to Nodes I always have to search for them again. Unless the movie has been added as a texture, then it is available throughout Blender.

Last edited by 3pointEdit; 16-Jun-11 at 03:34.
Reason: edits

Cheers, David ___________"awesome in space and other places".
________Follow me on twitter @3pointedit
_____________ Check the Youtube Channel for tutorials. Or my Sketchbook

Thats great. one problem is there isn't always a camera in your new scene (if you had already deleted it from your origional), this means the new scene cannot render. Also the new scene needs to have the same render settings as the origional. I'll see what I can do.